In November, when Dutchman Martin Wisjeimer became the first man to inject Bitcoin keys inside his hands, he captured the spirit of payments in 2015. Will others be crazy enough to try this? Maybe… Read more »
Reserves sees itself as the champion for the restaurant industry, bringing back their profits by levying reservation costs on diners instead. But with that premise, will customers want to use it? Read more »
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus can make their first Apple Pay transactions starting October 20, as more than 500 banks have signed on to participate. The new iPad Air 2 and… Read more »
Apple’s new mobile wallet won’t just support contactless payments at the register. It will broker online and in-app payments on your smartphone. Read more »
There’s no shortage of reasons why mobile payments have largely flopped in North America. But the restaurant industry could be low-hanging fruit for such offerings, and OpenTable is well positioned to… Read more »
The market for point-of-sale mobile payments continues to spin its wheels in North America, but restaurants might provide the opening payments providers have long been looking for. Read more »
Priceline will shell out $2.6 billion to acquire OpenTable in a move that could have the company selling unused restaurant tables at a discount. But OpenTable’s new mobile payments system might… Read more »
OpenTable tried offering daily restaurant deals but canned the service. Priceline could revive that model using its own travel and entertainment discounting tools. Read more »
What happens when a former derivatives trader gets into the restaurant business? Well, in the case of Nick Kokonas the business partner behind Alinea, Next, and the Aviary, you look at the numbers… Read more »
Google Wallet, Isis, PayPal and others continue to try to build ecosystems with an aggregated mobile wallet to support transactions at a wide variety of retailers. Meanwhile, some smaller players are… Read more »